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The owner's scope of work should be used as the yardstick against which to measure performance.
Why should the U.S. public accept the yardstick JacobWeisberg offered us for "measuring the Clinton foreign-contributions scandal" in his defense of the Democrats, "Does Everybody Do It?"
They will insist, through legislation and other means, that Beijing's behavior toward Hong Kong become the yardstick by which Washington determines its level of cooperation with China.
The current World Health Organization treatment target of having three million people on antiretroviral therapy by the end of 2005 (the “3 by 5” objective) provides a yardstick for only one part of the equation.
More specifically, using some level of mtDNA divergence as a yardstick for species boundaries ignores the low precision with which coalescence of mtDNA predicts phylogenetic divergence at nuclear genes (Hudson and Turelli 2003).